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Sir William Young Darling MC CBE MP (8 May 1885 – 4 February 1962) was the Unionist Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons for the Edinburgh South constituency from 1945 to 1957. He was a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1942-57.
He was the second son of William Darling of Edinburgh. He was educated at James Gillespie’s School; Daniel Stewart’s College; Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh University. He had the degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD)
He was awarded the Military Cross during the First World War, with bar. He became a member of Edinburgh Town Council in 1933 and was City Treasurer, 1937–40.
He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1941–44; National Government Candidate for West Lothian, 1937; and Chairman, Scottish Council on Industry, 1942–46.
He was appointed CBE in 1923 and knighted in 1943.
He was the author of Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller (1931); Hades the Ladies (1933); The Old Mill (1934); Down but not Out (1935); Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again (1938); Why I Believe in God and King’s Cross to Waverley (1944); A Book of Days (1951); So it Looks to Me (1952); and A Westminster Lad (Poems) (1955).
He was the great uncle of Alistair Darling1 who has served in various ministerial and Cabinet posts in the Labour government elected in 1997.
References
- ^ "Edinburgh South West". Scottish Politics. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
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Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South 1945–1957 |
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